Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-05-17

everything you could think of Oh, yes,
we had pie, cake, and pudding every
day. Il have not tasted any since
/ left the ship Then 1T p. IN.
we had tea, coffee, bread and cakes, so
YOU see the disadvantage of being sick on
vessel. you do not get all these good
things to eat. | thought OF this before
hand and made up my mind that l would
not be sick and stuck to it, for | was not
sick minute. When we got down III
Italy we only had two meals day, this /
did not like, but put up with 1t as best
could, but | generally had sandwich or
two between meals, but they were very
poor and cost ten cents TO twenty cents
apiece.
Well. | am a little ahead of my story, as
forgot we were not off the ship, or | have
not told you we landed, but skipped from
the meals on the shiptO the meals in Italy.
On the afternoon of the eighth day we
saw the southern coast OF Ireland, and our
ioy can better he imaged than described.
We almost acted like lunatics we were so
joyful. In few hours we anchored close
10 the shore OF Queenstown, and a little
tug came out and got the mail, which
consisted of very nearly five hundred sacks.
We then had about sixteen hours more on
the ocean to get to Liverpool, where we
arrived next day at about a. III. Mon
day, February 2l), making just nine days
on the ship.
We had our baggage examined here, then
got our dinner and left tor London at p.
M. where we arrived about $50 p. III,
The next day we hired large band wagon
to drive us around the largest city in the
world. We went to the London Tower,
where we saw different armOrs of all kinds
and all descriptions, saw the block that
Anne BOlyn, Lady Jane Grey and Lord
Stafford were beheaded on. We then went
to Westminster Abbey and got inside, but
they were having services there, so we did
not get to go all through 1t. We then
went to st. Paul'S Hall or London Dome,
and from there we went to Wesleyan Nj.
+. Church, built by John Wesley, and is
the oldest M. f. Church in the world. We
all stood in the pulpit and sat in his chair
and saw his grave and also that OF his
mother. We went to the National Picture
Gallery, one of the finest of ancient and
modern oil paintings, and when you would
look at some OF them you would almost
think they were alive. We visited a few
more places of minor interest and then re-
turned to the hotel, where We found a
good dinner awaiting a hungry set Of pill
grimS.
The next day we strOlled about looking
ut different things of interest, and left
London at : p. M, Thursday, for Paris,
France, where We reached next day
about , p. m. In going to Paris
We had to cross the English Channel ut the
widest part, and it was harder on us than
crossing the ocean. We had a small YES
sci. aud the wind blew so hard that we
thought We would be blown to pieces.
went to bed and went to sleep, and was
Weakened up by the grOans all around me,
and. seeing the others throwing up 50
hard turned my stomach, and | threw up
and turned over and went to sleep again.
| felt all right the next day and ate Il good
breakfast, but the most Of them were SO
weak they could hardly walk. The next
day Saturday we hired carriages and
went to the different places OF interest,
among them was the Cherry Museum,
where we saw the golden chariot and mar
ness OF Henry XIV, Nv and XVI. They
were very fine, but old and must have
cost a great deal of money. We saw the
piano used by Marie AntOinettc. 1t is a
very old and ancient one, and does not
look much like the fine ones we see in the
United States We saw the bed Henry
". used to sleep in. II was over four hun
dred years old: and the most curious thing
we saw was a belt that Francis |. used to
put on his wife when he would 20
away from home We saw 4 great
many other things Of interest, but
too numerous to mention. We drove
through the park OF lioloGanc and |
think it is the finest park ever saw, ami
the roads through it are as fine aS the floors
in our houses; and they have every kind OF
flowers and trees and every thing to make
it beautiful. | have not time nor space to
give you full description of everything,
So | will Just tell you OF the places |
passed through and the most interesting
thin - | have seen.
We lett Paris ON Monday, February %,
for Luzern, Switzerland, and crossed a
good part OF France and portion OF Ger
many thot formerly belonged to France,
and ate dinner at Bazal, Switzerland, and
| never enjoyed dinner better in my life,
1t was late in the evening and we We're all
hungry, and everything tasted 50 good.
We had regular old time fried potatoes as
Hobey talks about and the best Of beef
steak, bread, butter and coffee.
| think John Leichti, of the Union Glass
Company, came from there, rs he showed
me letter from there just n day or so
before left. Wei, we stayed in
Iuzcrn that night and left
early the next morning, and crossed
the great Alps mountains, where we could
see the grandcst scenery Of nature that ever
was, the railroad would wind around aud
around, aud cross itself hundreds Of feet
above where we had been Just 4 short time
before, and 90 in tunnels by the dozen,
but the longest tunnel We went through
WAS the st. GOthard. It is nine miles long
and takes about oue-halt hour to 20 through
it, we got up one side and down the other
side of the mountains and came to Milan,
Italy, where we stayed one day, and Wis
tied st. Ambrose Temple, where we AL sat
in the chair that Charlemague and Napol-
con |. were crowned in. The chair dates
back to the Fourth century. We went
from Milan to Venice and rode from the
depot to the hotel in gordolas or canoes,
as the streets are all water, and You can
not get along any other way than by going
in the boats, and it has one hundred and
fifty thousand inhabitants, and not Il horse
or COW in the city anywhere. 1t is the
only city in the world that has not horse
i'm it.
If you want to know anything of the
streets Just refer back to February and :,
~, aud imagine YOU see all our streets
filled with water, and you will have very
good idea Of the streets of Venice, only
that the water does not run swift or de
Stroy anything.
We lett Venice for Trieste, Austria. and
took 4 ship there or the Adriatic Sea,
where we sailed for two days and then got
into the Mediterranean Sea, where we
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